Frustrations...
There is much that we do not understand about the world. Trying to find out exactly what we can and cannot know has been a passion of mine for quite awhile. I have a long way to go- people have been trying to figure this stuff out for thousands of years.But is it worth it if I cannot even start with what I know? How do I know what I am knowing this instant is what I knew five minutes ago? How do I know that I agree with you on what we are seeing?
Why is knowledge so important? Why am I always trapped by my perception of knowledge rather than actual knowledge?
Just a few things I'm working through.
posted by Emmett @ 23:37
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Really, I've been wondering that myself. Don't have an answer though. Guess the world's just what we make of it. Your world has never been the same as mine even though it's a part of it. Make sense? I hope so, it did in my head, and this one was actually thought out. But see... how I'm starting to figure, we just need to look into ourselves and make the best of what we have in everything else.
*on a completely unrelated note, I'd forgotten about blogger till a few days ago, and now it won't publish my new blog. grr...*
You sound like an anthropologist, except you don't sound comfortable with your own ethnocentrism. Of course you're going to know things in ten minutes that you don't know now. Sometimes it's really obvious, life lessons, or just dumb facts from school, but usually it's a deeper understanding of yourself, nature, or some passion you have. And sometimes the knowledge doesn't even bother to form itself into words, it simply slips in, says 'hello' quietly, and goes to float around with the rest of the tacit laws in your mind.
There, how was that for thought-out and insightful?
Awhile ago I was thinking about how radically my mindset has changed since I entered high school...and how radically it had changed between then and when I entered junior high... it's a little scary, really, even if it is natural and necessary.
The point, though, is to accumulate more and more and continually test it, hoping to shave away what isn't light so you're left with the better parts of what you've learned.
It's been awhile... how are yeh, Emmett?
I think he's dead.
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